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UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY

UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY (Utah) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,575 to it, the largest being GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$506k
Net assets
$6.5M
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Utah Festival Opera Company does

Mission

Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Serving utah and the western u.s., ufomt presents a quality opera and musical season each year. Due to a continuing funding shortfall resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, the company had to limit its summer efforts in 2025 to scaled-down productions at the utah theatre while continuing its statewide educational programs for school children. The seasons offerings included a musical production for children, a student musical , a classic film festival, and a silent film festival. Ufomt also produced the annual utah high school musical theatre awards program, which entailed sending judges to different schools accress the state to judge their high school musicals, and then providing an awards show to announce the winners.

    $1,405,328 spent$250,675 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,405,328.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($9.1M)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.9M) Expenses 102 ($3.7M) Net assets 103 ($9.3M)2019 Revenue 88 ($3.2M) Expenses 104 ($3.8M) Net assets 96 ($8.7M)2020 Revenue 59 ($2.1M) Expenses 55 ($2.0M) Net assets 98 ($8.9M)2021 Revenue 65 ($2.3M) Expenses 54 ($1.9M) Net assets 102 ($9.3M)2022 Revenue 91 ($3.3M) Expenses 113 ($4.1M) Net assets 94 ($8.5M)2023 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 129 ($4.7M) Net assets 82 ($7.5M)2024 Revenue 78 ($2.8M) Expenses 113 ($4.1M) Net assets 68 ($6.2M)2025 Revenue 56 ($2.0M) Expenses 48 ($1.7M) Net assets 72 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (48)Net assets (72)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $6.7M (−46%).

$14M
$14M
$13M
$13M
$14M
$13M
$13M
$12M
$6.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 50% · 2021 52% · 2022 35% · 2023 36% · 2024 33% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$228k
’18
−$592k
’19
$149k
’20
$394k
’21
−$755k
’22
−$1.0M
’23
−$1.3M
’24
$310k
’25
6.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed1113981112121111
Joined·+2+2+0+6+2+0+1+0
No longer listed·06131020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $159k → $83k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

32% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY.

30%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 64% · 2020 91% · 2021 67% · 2022 55% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

29% of UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY's grant income comes from Utah funders.

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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY?
UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY (Utah) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,575 to it, the largest being GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $505,575 in grants to UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY?
GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing